Embroiding for Beginners

A pure embroidery machine has the option of importing an embroidery file. This embroidery file contains all the relevant information about the motif that the machine needs to automatically transfer the motif to the fabric. This includes the color, the stitch type, the shapes, the stitch angle and much more. Depending on the type of machine and software used, various formats are available for digitizing.

An embroidery machine cannot read and process just any file format, but usually requires a file in a specific embroidery format (e.g. PES, PHC, DST). To create an embroidery file yourself, you need specific embroidery software. The design is then created step by step in this software. This means which colors are to be embroidered in which order, which stitch types and shapes are to be used, etc.

We recommend the use of inkstitch. The file created there can be transferred to our embroidery machine using a USB stick, whereby only the file formats .pes, .phc and .dst are accepted.